Throughout this country the question of child labor and its attendant evils has become a serious problem, and in several States similar committees or organizations had been formed to deal with this question within their several State limits. The chief purpose of this national committee is to organize additional State committees and to act as a general committee with the object of securing better laws in the several States, and, if possible, more uniform laws and a more general enforcement of such legal protection for the children of this country. To make this as widely representative as possible and to emphasize its national significance and scope of action it now seeks incorporation from Congress for the purposes set forth in this report and particularly set forth in section 2 of the act. For this reason it was not deemed expedient to attempt incorporation under the laws of any State, and the laws of the District of Columbia render it impossible to secure incorporation under the general statute now in operation for the reason that none of the incorporators are residents of the District of Columbia, and the law requires, in subchapter 3 of the Code, that a majority of the incorporators of an organization of this character shall be citizens of the District of Columbia. To conform to this requirement would destroy the widely representative character of the committee. The incorporators named in the bill constitute the board of trustees of the organization. They are all nonresidents of the District of Columbia. The purposes of this organization are purely educational and philanthropic. It conducts no business for private profit and has no other object than those set forth in section 2 of the bill under consideration. It represents a great work and strikes at a great social evil. It certainly merits favorable consideration in Congress. O 2d Session: No. 5486. INDIAN APPROPRIATION BILL. DECEMBER 15, 1906.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state the Union and ordered to be printed. Mr. SHERMAN, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany H. R. 22580.] The aggregate of the items in the accompanying bill making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, and for other purposes, is $8,203,068.23. The estimates for the Indian Service upon which the bill is based will be found in the estimates for appropriations for the fiscal year 1908, page 209 et seq. (H. Doc. No. 12, 59th Cong., 2d sess.), and aggregate $7,970, 168. 23 The appropriations carried in the bill aggregate.... 8, 203, 068. 23 Apparent excess of items carried in the bill over estimate .... 232, 900.00 The following table shows the estimates submitted for the fiscal year 1908, under the several divisions of the bill, the amounts recommended to be appropriated, and the appropriations contained in the appropriation bill for 1907: Object. Estimates for Carried by Appropriated 1908. bill, 1908. for 1907. Current expenses. Total $914,800.00 8913,000.00 $889, 800.00 1, 653, 273. 23 1,811, 173.23 1, 913, 923. 23 560, 500.00 450, 500.00 576, 000.00 52,000.00 52,000.00 70,000.00 946,800.00 941,800.00 a 2,030, 846.75 3,812, 795.00 4,024, 595.00 3, 924,630.00 7,970, 168.23 8, 203,068. 23 9, 405, 199.98 a Including payments to Klamaths. Amount appropriated for 1907 (as per H. Doc. No.12, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session). $9, 405, 199.98 Amount carried in the bill for 1908.. 8, 203, 068. 23 Excess of appropriations, 1907, over amount contained in bill, 1908. 1, 202, 131. 75 $100 250 5,300 200 150,000 157, 900 200 Excess of items carried in bill 1908 over estimates 1908. Morris school Pipestone school Fort Totten school Wahpeton school... Chamberlain school Survey, Pine Ridge Reservation Hayward school.. Excess of items estimated 1908 over items carried in bill, 1908. Sioux subsistence.. $1,250 100,000 25,000 10,000 151,050 $250,000.00 Comparison of appropriations, 1907, with proposed appropriations, 1908. AMOUNTS APPROPRIATED FOR 1907 AND DECREASED IN ESTIMATES 1908. Irrigation, Indian reservations. AMOUNTS APPROPRIATED FOR 1907 NOT ESTIMATED FOR 1908. $30,000.00 8,000.00 100,000.00 10,000.00 25,000.00 5,000.00 8,000.00 15,000.00 30,000.00 10,000.00 10,000.00 8, 000.00 1, 236.00 $547.90 15,000.00 197.50 901.23 2,200.00 2, 091.92 150,000.00 30,000.00 30,000.00 15, 000.00 57, 000.00 2,600.00 Payment to Margaret Bushman, Michigan... Minnesota ... Agency, Mont..... (Nev.)... taken by the United States in 1876.. woman, Minnesota . 70.00 400.00 9,500.00 16, 800.00 40,000.00 350,000.00 187, 007. 20 5,000.00 4,200.00 6, 320.00 5,000.00 5,000.00 10,500.00 75,000.00 175.00 Total... 1, 759, 251.75 AMOUNTS EMBRACED IN ESTIMATES FOR 1908 NOT APPROPRIATED FOR 1907. $15,000.00 10,000.00 10,000.00 25,000.00 2,000.00 2, 500.00 1,900.00 10,000.00 4,000.00 30,000.00 7,000.00 4,000.00 Amount of increase under Allotments under act of February 8, 1887 (reimbursable) Territory Indian Territory . Indian Territory ritory 30,000.00 8,000.00 3,500.00 500.00 3, 470.00 1,000.00 40,000.00 24, 000.00 1,500.00 30,000.00 14, 000.00 5, 300.00 8,000.00 |